RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

TOKYO, 26 November 2018 UK energy data analytics startup SMAP Energy and Japanese energy retailer Looop collaborated on the creation of Japan’s first smart-meter-enabled time of use (TOU) tariff. The program was novel in that it only relied on smart-meter data and SMAP Energy’s proprietary algorithms to optimise engagement. 1300 Japanese energy consumers joined the …

CAMBRIDGE, 23 Oct 2018 Authors: Eoghan O’Neill (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK), Melvyn Weeks (Faculty of Economics and Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK) Full publication: Link We examine the distributional effects of the introduction of Time-of-Use (TOU) pricing schemes where the price per kWh of electricity usage depends on the time of …

Lead Investigator: Dr. Melvyn Weeks, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK Coauthor: Eoghan O’Neil, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK The investigation of treatment effect heterogeneity is of interest in many fields including economics and personalised medicine. In some applications, there are many available covariates and functions of covariates that are plausibly associated …

Lead Investigator: Dr. Melvyn Weeks, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK Coauthor: Bowei Guo, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK Governments across Europe and beyond are planning to integrate large quantities of intermittent wind and solar into the electricity grid. In this context, and with the timing of renewable supply largely fixed, a …

TOKYO, 27 February 2018 – Japanese energy retailer Looop Inc. announced today the offering of the Looop time-of-use (TOU) tariff – the first of its kind in Japan. The new product was created utilizing smart-meter data and SMAP Energy’s Smart-Meter Analytics Platform – which leverages novel artificial intelligence algorithms to extract behavioural insight. Why is …

CAMBRIDGE, 22 March 2017 Author: Paul Monroe, Co-Founder, SMAP Energy Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (Link) Ensuring sufficient competition in the energy market is a key role of the regulator. One of the most popular measures for measuring competition has been in the analysis of customers switching between energy tariff plans. Unfortunately, switching rates are …